Method of cutting shirts



G. A. AIKEN.

METHOD OF CUTTING SHIRTS.

APPLICATION FILED APR. I3. 1920.

1,378,164. Pficented May 17, 1921.

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UNITED STATES GEORGE ANTHONY AIKEN, OF CLIFTON, NEW JERSEY.

METHOD OF CUTTING SHIRTS.

Specification of Letters Patent. Patented May 17, 1921.

Application filed April 13, 1920. Serial No. 373,679.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, GEORGE ANTHONY AIKEN, a citizen of the UnitedStates, residing at Clifton, in the county of Passaic and State of NewJersey, have invented a new and useful Method of Cutting Shirts, of

- which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to the manufacture of shirts, and it is theobject of the invention to provide a novel method of cutting shirts, toreduce the waste of material incident to the manufacture thereof, to aminimum.

A further object of the invention is to provide a pattern changing thelower outline of a garment, whereby sections of a garment may be formedby a single operation, the pattern being arranged on the material underoperation in a manner to facilitate the cutting of the garment.

With the foregoing and other objects in view which will appear as thedescription proceeds, the invention resides in the combination andarrangement of parts and in the details of construction hereinafterdescribed and claimed, it being understood that changes in the preciseembodiment of the invention herein disclosed, may be made within thescope of what is claimed, without departing from the spirit of theinvention.

Referring to the drawing The figure illustrates a plan View of a patternconstructed in accordance with the present invention.

Referring to the drawing in detail, the pattern is shown as includingopposed pattern sections, each of which comprises a body 5 employed informing both of the sides of a shirt, each of the body portions beingprovided with a curved portion 6 forming one section of the neck of theshirt,

The lower edge of the body is curved as at' 8, there being provided arelatively straight portion 9 connecting the curved edge 8 and the frontedge 10 of the body.

The forward edge of the blank is cut away as at 11, the cut away portionextendmg from a point adjacent the upper end of the blank, terminatingat a point in spaced relation with the lower edge 9 of the body toprovide the usual extension 12.

In-the application of a pattern of this character, the upper portion ofthe figure illustrates the manner in which the pattern is placed on thematerial to be out, while the lower portion of the figure discloses themanner of positioning a section in the succeeding step of the cuttingoperation, and from the foregoing it will be seen that the curved loweredges of the sections may be v positioned to engage each other to reducethe waste of material in the manufacture of shirts.

Having thus described the invention, what I claim as new is A method ofcutting shirts consisting in forming a pattern of a plurality ofsections having curved ends, positioning the curved ends of the patterntogether and placing them on the material under operation, and finallycutting the cloth by the pattern.

In testimony that I claim the foregoing as my own, I have hereto afixedmy signature in the presence of two witnesses.

GEORGE ANTHONY AIKEN. 7

Witnesses:

W. A. HARRISON, FREDK. D. HARRISON.

